Throughout the ages architects have attempted to capture the essence of living systems as design inspiration. This title shows that contemporary architects can create and construct architectures that are bottom up, synthetically biological, green and have no recourse to shallow bio-mimicry.[...]

Construct effective arguments with UNDERSTANDING ARGUMENTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO INFORMAL LOGIC, International Edition. Primarily an introduction to informal logic, this text provides a guide to understanding and constructing arguments in the context of academic studies and subsequent professional car[...]

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest-standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' r[...]

David Armstrong's book is a contribution to the philosophical discussion about possible worlds. Taking Wittgenstein's Tractatus as his point of departure, Professor Armstrong argues that nonactual possibilities and possible worlds are recombinations of actually existing elements, and as such are use[...]

The emergence of global governance in several key areas calls into question conventional understandings of world politics in terms of conflicts of interests between sovereign states under conditions of anarchy. At the same time the new phenomena of anti-globalisation demonstrations, transnational so[...]

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers the novel her fans have been clamoring for: "Thirteen," the epic finale of the Otherworld series.
It's been more than ten years, a dozen installments, and hundreds of thousands of copies since Kelley Armstrong introduced reade[...]

As #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.
"Omens," the first installment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new series, introduc[...]

Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it. And when he does, he'll grow older than the brother he recently lost. Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign him up for Opportunity Busing to a white school in [...]

When Emma O'Reilly joined the US Postal cycling team in 1996, she could have had no idea how she would become a central figure in the biggest doping scandal in sporting history. Yet when Lance Armstrong, starting his comeback from cancer, signed for US Postal, it was Emma, the only woman on the team[...]

Recounts the experiences of the author, who, as a young Polish girl--forced to work for the German army because of her blond hair and blue eyes--secretly assisted the Jews, from passing on information to smuggling prisoners from the work camp into the forest. Reissue.[...]

In this thrilling new novel from the author of "Industrial Magic," a rebellious--and formerly deceased--witch must cross into the darkest destination to stop a killer from destroying everything she loves for all time. Original.[...]